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New motel Sand's Inn Park Terrace opens in Fort Morgan

Former Best Western renovated

ByDAN BARKER Times News Editor

Posted:
10/12/2012 12:45:41 PM MDT

Updated:
10/12/2012 04:32:19 PM MDT

Ron Sand show's off the nice rooms at his new motel, the Sand's Inn Park Terrace. The bed frames look old-fashioned, but are new, and the ceiling is done in a classic metallic style. Rooms also have Internet access.
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Ron Sand has added a new motel to his family's others with the renamed Sand's Inn Park Terrace on Main Street in Fort Morgan.

That means his family now has the Sand's motel it owned for years, the Country Comfort Motel on Highway 34 west of town and the new Sand's Inn.

Sand took over the former Best Western motel, cleaned it up and now has a number of very nice rooms of various bed and room sizes.

That includes beds that have an old-fashioned look of a cast-iron bed frame, but they are new, Sand said.

Each room has its own refrigerator, microwave oven, coffee maker and Internet service, as well as some new furnishings, he said.

The ceilings also have a retro, metallic look of embossed flowers, and ceiling fans. However, there is brand-new air conditioning and heat in the rooms, Sand said.

"It really turned out nice," he said. "People will be surprised by how nice the rooms are. We're really excited about this."

All of the rooms are non-smoking and no pets, but that should not stop anyone because the family's other motels offer different kinds of rooms for different needs. The Sand's Motel on West Platte Avenue allows pets and smoking on a daily, weekly or monthly basis, and the Country Comfort has long-term room rentals which seem like small apartments with their own kitchenettes.

The new motel is also has the latest technology.

Motels used to want locations on the main thoroughfare or the highway, but today everyone looks on the Internet for motels, Sand noted.

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That meant drafting his grandson to make a website for the family's motels, although that is not up just yet.

Sand has two wide screen TVs hooked up to security cameras in his lounge, and can easily see what is happening all around the motel for greater safety.

He can make up electronic keys with the touch of a button that destroy themselves after a set amount of time, so no one can walk off with a key, he said.

Sand can log guests in on his iPad, which will directly take their credit cards, or they can hook their own iPads in and do it.

The family filled in the rarely used swimming pool that sat behind the restaurant area and put in a patio that will be used for the restaurant when it opens again.

That restaurant will reopen with an American smorgasbord theme. Guests can eat from several choices of breakfast, more choices for lunch and choices of casseroles for dinner. There are plenty of other kinds of restaurants in town, and it will be nice to have American-style food, Sand said.

It will not have a menu, so it will be different with just the smorgasbord.

Sand said he hopes to open it in early 2013. It will also not have a bakery in the basement as it used to, since that is now against health department rules.

The family is still working on the upstairs rooms, which were torn up for renovation by the former owner. One plan is to have an inside staircase for use when the weather is bad.

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